as per postgresql manual, interactions with psql should be carried
out with the postgresql system user and postgresql db user by default.
ensure it happens in postStart.
According to the MySQL manual, this is a perfectly legal way of
shutting down the server. The shutdown logs also looks fine:
systemd[1]: Stopping MySQL Server...
mysqld[5114]: 140319 8:36:12 [Note] /nix/store/sc26mz82k97mbpx3d1abzn3rrbd155ws-mariadb-10.0.8/bin/mysqld: Normal shutdown
mysqld[5114]: 140319 8:36:12 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events
mysqld[5114]: 140319 8:36:12 [Note] InnoDB: FTS optimize thread exiting.
mysqld[5114]: 140319 8:36:12 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
mysqld[5114]: 140319 8:36:14 [Note] InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 1619078
mysqld[5114]: 140319 8:36:14 [Note] /nix/store/sc26mz82k97mbpx3d1abzn3rrbd155ws-mariadb-10.0.8/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
systemd[1]: Stopped MySQL Server.
PostgreSQL defaults to having 'postgres' as the superuser. NixOS should
use this default name to provide a less surprising result to people who
enable services.postgres.
Postgres was taking a long time to shutdown. This is because we were
sending SIGINT to all processes, apparently confusing the autovacuum
launcher. Instead it should only be sent to the main process (which
takes care of shutting down the others).
The downside is that systemd will also send the final SIGKILL only to
the main process, so other processes in the cgroup may be left behind.
There should be an option for this...
The attribute ‘config.systemd.services.<service-name>.runner’
generates a script that runs the service outside of systemd. This is
useful for testing, and also allows NixOS services to be used outside
of NixOS. For instance, given a configuration file foo.nix:
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{ services.postgresql.enable = true;
services.postgresql.package = pkgs.postgresql92;
services.postgresql.dataDir = "/tmp/postgres";
}
you can build and run PostgreSQL as follows:
$ nix-build -A config.systemd.services.postgresql.runner -I nixos-config=./foo.nix
$ ./result
This will run the service's ExecStartPre, ExecStart, ExecStartPost and
ExecStopPost commands in an appropriate environment. It doesn't work
well yet for "forking" services, since it can't track the main
process. It also doesn't work for services that assume they're always
executed by root.
* simplify directory layout
* clean up option descriptions
* let the user override Firebird package
* create firebird user
* clarify TODO comment
Close # 1061.
